PG Week: “How to Survive Your PhD” online course
Those little letters “Dr” in front of someone’s name confer an awful lot of respectability. And so they should – anyone who has completed a PhD has proved themselves capable […]
Research
PG Week: Maximising your CV-friendly transferable skills
No matter what your course of study, your postgraduate journey will leave you with knowledge and skills far wider than your subject area. Dr Lyn Lavery’s PhD is in Educational […]
PG Week: A networking breakfast with Dr Lyn Lavery
Many of you will be well-sated, in body and mind, after this morning’s PG Breakfast with a fascinating talk by Dr Lyn Lavery of Academic Consulting Ltd. Lyn talked about […]
Diversity Week: Does your research acknowledge intersectionality?
It’s easy to think of diversity in terms of nice neat categories: ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, religion… But nobody can be reduced to one simple characteristic. Everybody has an ethnicity, […]
Diversity Week: Diversity in sample groups
Obvious statement #1: Much research happens on university campuses. Obvious statement #2: University students represent a convenient source of human subjects for research purposes. Obvious statement #3: University student populations […]
Diversity Week: Avoiding unconscious bias in research
Very few people admit to being racist, sexist, ageist, homophobic, or otherwise discriminatory. But even those who don’t feel hatred towards a particular group can still exhibit a bias. This […]
Diversity Week: What is diversity in academia?
When a company references their “diversity plan,” they’re often talking about a plan to meet an ethnicity or gender quota among their staff or in their boardrooms. But diversity in […]
Fieldwork Fails
Scientists are getting real on Twitter lately. If you haven’t done so already, check out the glory that is #fieldworkfail. There are stories of all kinds of fabulous, unfortunate, and […]
Can “Eureka” Moments be Manufactured?
Thomas Edison famously said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Funnily enough, that is exactly the calculation I have made of my doctoral research. 99% is: reading dense […]
Events for Pacific Researchers
Talanoa Series Through the magic of videoconferencing, Pacific researchers from many different institutions and organisations hold regular virtual meetings in an initiative called the Talanoa Series. Twice a month, researchers […]
New Writing Guides Available
While many postgraduate students are confident writers, some writing tasks still provide their own specific challenges. There are certain pieces of work which take any postgraduate writer out of the […]
The Myth of the Perfect Postgrad
Do you judge everything you do against some imagined ideal? Do you hold yourself to impossibly high standards? Do you experience guilt at every moment of your life? If you […]